It seems at first commonplace: a photograph of peasants at harvest time, after work well done, resting contentedly with their tools, behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices that what seemed innocent on first view becomes horrific: the crops scattered in front of the group are [...]
Documents the brutal 1941 massacre of 1,600 Jewish men, women, and children by their own neighbors in the Polish town of Jedwabne, offering additional examinations of the period's Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism.[...]
For lokalbefolkningen omkring Auschwitz, Treblinka og de andre koncentrationslejre i Polen og Tyskland var Holocaust ikke udelukkende et frygteligt onde. Nej, de mange kz-fanger udgjorde en mulighed for hurtige penge, tøj og mad for de lokale bønder. Men mens nazisternes grusomheder er et velb[...]